Yes, the old clockpop used to wakeup and shut off when you held the button (which was great the main reason to get this app don't have to turn on the palm to see the time) this was with Palm OS 4 or lower. I have emailed the software creator he claims there is a problem with OS 5 and this feature and he is working on it.

I am using a Sprint (hardware C), ugraded to 1.2. I have ClockPop5 version 5.0b1, set for the far right power button. It was having problems because of keyguard, but because of a tip (forgot who posted it), I disabled keyguard and use PocketProtector+ (version 1.5) instead.

Works great. Hold the button to see the time, press the power button twice and the unit powers on normally.

It takes a little while to get used to the double press timing for power on, but I also use Profeo 600 Lite (v0.9.1), and have it show the splash screen for 1 second on power up. When the splash screen goes away I do a second press & then I'm good to go.

As a nice feature, the splash screen shows me the status of the speaker switch, so I don't need to use Sound Off anymore to remind me of the speaker switch status.